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Example sentences for "disobeying"

Lexicographically close words:
disna; disobedience; disobedient; disobey; disobeyed; disobeys; disoblige; disobliged; disobliging; disoient
  1. Your majesty may depend upon what I have said; and how dangerous soever the consequence of disobeying this order may be, I will take it all upon myself.

  2. They carried them provisions, but durst not stay to comfort them, for fear of being discovered, and punished for disobeying the caliph's orders.

  3. You feel that you are not only disobeying God yourself, but that you are providing others with excuses for disobeying him, and with examples of disobedience.

  4. Sin committed by disobeying an invincibly erroneous conscience is of the gravity and species apprehended by the conscience.

  5. The results of disobeying an erroneous conscience are as follows: (a) He who disobeys an invincibly erroneous conscience, is guilty.

  6. Sin committed by disobeying a vincibly erroneous conscience is of the species that was perceived.

  7. Study the orderly working of your own bodily functions; and having this clearly in mind, notice where you, in all movements that are or might be under the control of your will, are disobeying Nature's laws.

  8. Has man the privilege of disobeying natural laws, only in the use of his own individual powers?

  9. Where is the use of taking medicines to give us new strength, while at the same time we are steadily disobeying the very laws from the observance of which alone the strength can come?

  10. Sir, "Since you forbid me to write to you upon the subject of my detainer I shall not rouse the anger or contempt with which you have been pleased to treat me by disobeying your order.

  11. Kitchener’s note is not sufficient to justify me in disobeying my regular instructions.

  12. During the delay and discussion that followed, some soldiers, disobeying orders, fired at some cattle that were grazing near by.

  13. Till now I was afraid of disobeying a father who is unjustly enraged against you, and resolved on your destruction; but at last I loathe and abhor this barbarity.

  14. Commander of the faithful, said he, Heaven preserve me from disobeying your majesty's orders!

  15. To disobeying the general orders by stealing through the lines: one hundred lashes on the bare back.

  16. Certainly not; for as soon as it was seen on board of the flag-ship that the commander of the Bronx was disobeying his orders, we should be chased by the two ships on the station and fired upon.

  17. She was ready to obey the king; she answered, when she could do so without disobeying God; but she could not damn her soul even for him.

  18. In disobeying the king, they said; seeing that she was none other than his subject, she might give cause for dissension and disturbance; and she might lose the favour of the people.

  19. On the eighteenth he passed the Aisne, and Marmont, disobeying the explicit instructions of Napoleon to keep open a line of retreat toward Chalons, began to withdraw toward Fismes, where he effected a junction with Mortier.

  20. Not one of the municipalities, even Jacobin, can find any pretext which will warrant the charge of disobeying orders.

  21. When your word came that I should find Elebi--he being an enemy of the Government and disobeying your word--I took fifty of my young men and followed on his tracks.

  22. Where such steadiness and certainty of penalty attend disobedience, children no more think of disobeying than they do of putting their fingers into a burning candle.

  23. General Sherman, "he has been blamed for disobeying orders; but I think he obeyed orders to-day!

  24. The charges against us were: over-staying shore leave fourteen hours, disobeying orders and general untidiness.

  25. Then Mr. Dinsmore's voice spoke sternly from a lower window, "Lulu, you are disobeying orders.

  26. But it will be disobeying wilfully the kind father who forgave a heedless act of disobedience not very long ago," said conscience; "the dear father who must soon leave you to be gone no one knows how long, perhaps never to come back.

  27. And Pauline felt, notwithstanding her present happiness and her long days of health and vigor and glee, that she was disobeying the sea, for she was not washing therein, nor getting herself clean in all that waste of water.

  28. Yes; but what's one more in a family doing disobeying things?

  29. This, of course, implies a hatred of wrong; a religious and determined habit of disobeying and resisting every thing which contradicts the law of God, of disobeying what is false to this and our conscience.

  30. Elsie indignantly, rich color rushing all over her fair face and neck; "for I know that he loves me dearly and if I had been disobeying or deceiving him I would far sooner throw myself on his mercy than on yours.

  31. What, Elsie disobeying orders, and mamma conniving at it!

  32. She had not moved in his absence, so brief as scarcely to have left her time in which to resolve upon disobeying his injunction.

  33. Stay where you are, my lady," he enjoined again, so gravely that she could have no thought of disobeying him.

  34. Any officer or soldier disobeying this order will suffer death.

  35. I was very anxious about the major, Achmet Rafik, as Raouf Bey and the officers declared that he would have certainly endeavoured to follow the troops rather than run the risk of disobeying the orders he had received.

  36. For disobeying orders, imprisonment as long as the master chooses.

  37. This is worthy of Nero, who caused his edicts to be placed so high that they could not be read, and then beheaded his subjects for disobeying them.

  38. So when she cometh back with the gugglet, she will deem that thou hast fallen asleep, after having drunk off the cup, and will leave thee; and presently the case will appear to thee; but beware of disobeying my bidding.

  39. You bade me not to write, and you have not even forgiven me for disobeying your order.

  40. But she does not expect that his letters, either coming or going, shall be subject to any espial, and she generally feels that the option of obeying or disobeying the instructions given to her rests with herself.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "disobeying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.